On the ninth day of June in 891 A.D., the battle outside Shangjing lasted all night before slowly ending. By chance, the Tiance Army relied on the Flying Eagle Brigade of 1,000 people to drive hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep as the vanguard, broke through the nearly 600,000 troops of the Wild Horses, and fought for hundreds of miles, killing nearly 50,000 people and horses of the vassal tribes of the Birds, capturing more than 60,000 people, and rushing up the entire vassal barracks with more than 300,000 soldiers and horses. The cavalry of the Tiance Army pursued overnight, crossed the western mountain range of Shangjing, and entered the southeastern part of Beihai.

"Lord, do you want to take a look at the battle damage statistics?" After this pursuit, the headquarters of the northern front of the Tiance Army also urgently withdrew from Shangjing City and began to detour to the southwest, passing through the vast mountains from eastern Inner Mongolia to Siberia in the later years, and entering the grassland from the northern part of the Murowei Civil Defense Zone. At this time, the Tiance army was on the front of the three roads, and the headquarters led Hou Yong's headquarters to act. Gao Siji entered the eastern part of Beihai from the North Road, blocking the northward road of the Huangjia Si Wusuke. Lu Yi and Li Feixue's central garrison battalion, accompanied by the grassland cavalry battalion, was the middle road, following Wu Jie's footsteps.

In this later known as the "Thousand Miles of Pursuit" pursuit battle, the three-way men and horses crossed the entire eastern grassland, and traveled all the tribal territories of the eastern Tatar along the way, and the pace of the Han army stepped on this grassland again after a hundred years, bringing shock, so that these large and small tribes once again felt the invincible momentum and glory of the powerful East Asia a hundred years ago.

At this time, Li Xuanqing took the army directly under the headquarters and Chen Fan to detour to the southwest, discussing follow-up matters with Hu Xiaosi and Chen Fan all the way, and at the same time sent a military newspaper to inform the General Staff. The sharp turn in the battle on the northern front will inevitably spread to the southern front soon, and Xie Tong will definitely adjust his strategy according to the drastic changes on the northern front, so Li Xuanqing asked Xue Yang and the Modao battalion to quickly return south to participate in the battle of the Central Plains, and the northern front concentrated the main cavalry force to carry out a thousand-mile attack.

"How much battle damage?" Li Xuanqing looked at Chen Fan's chief of staff, Liu Yi, and asked.

"My lord, our army has a total of more than 10,000 casualties, and the wounded have been arranged to be placed on the spot with the infantry brigade in Shangjing, and some of the lightly wounded have returned to Youzhou at the right time." Liu Yi said with a smile: "It's too coincidental for us to win the battle in Beijing." ”

"Actually, speaking of which, the headquarters of the Tun has not lost much, and Usuke was also frightened by our momentum, otherwise he would not have fled west so quickly." Chen Fan nodded and said: "With momentum, he can immediately regroup his troops and make a comeback after pushing through the mountains, but he doesn't know why he fled all the way west." ”

"I guess those tribal coalition forces have suffered too much loss, I'm afraid they won't be able to suppress it. We have killed almost 100,000 prisoners, and it is estimated that six or seven out of ten of the scattered stragglers will not be able to return, so that the coalition army of nearly 400,000 people is estimated to only have more than 100,000 people left. In this way, his strength is not much different from ours, and the morale problem is difficult to solve, so it is better to simply flee back to his base camp. Hu Xiaosi said with a smile: "If I am Wujie, it is better to take advantage of the strength in my hand to directly find a place to occupy the land and be the king, anyway, the royal court of Huangjiasi can't do anything about him now." ”

"No, I heard that Usuke is the first heir to the Tooth Tent of the Eagles, and such a good foundation will not be given up so easily. In recent years, the Uighurs and other tribes in the west have fought endlessly, and they have fought several battles against the Great Cannibals for the dominance of the Western Regions. Wan Yi sent back the news before, the traces of the Huangsi people have been found in Hexi, and the scattered forces will definitely not last long, if we annihilate its main elite in a battle this time, then it will definitely bring new opportunities to other departments in the Western Regions, so that we can enter the Western Regions in the future. Li Xuanqing shook his head and said, "Actually, if you don't consider the next step to march into Jiangnan, you can take advantage of the situation to fight all the way from the grassland to the Western Regions, but in this case, the logistics of the Tiance Army will sooner or later be collapsed by itself." The expedition to the Western Regions was not a war, but a complete logistical battle. Relying on the current scale of Zuo Tiancheng's logistics and transportation, it is simply impossible to support the expedition of more than 100,000 troops to tens of thousands of miles, not to mention that the Jiangnan side is still waiting to cross the river by himself. ”

"Little Four, how many days have we left Shangjing? Is there any news from Gao Siji and Lu Yi? Li Xuanqing thought for a while and asked.

"Today is the fifth day, and we should be close to the northern boundary of the Black Carriage Room Wei people by now." Hu Xiaosi shook his head and said: "There is no news from Gao Siji at present, but Lu Yi's side is the fastest, and there should be news soon, and there is Feixue who estimates that this guy will walk in front of everyone nine times out of ten." Hu Xiaosi was a little resentful of Li Feixue's character, "I guess Tahi will find a shortcut, I'm not sure." ”

"It's possible that the people of Heichezi Muwei will send troops to intercept us, do you want to let Hou Yong and their light cavalry come forward as an outpost of the army." Chen Fan sat on the horse and frowned while staring at the map.

"What about Hou Yong and them? Their light cavalry won't run slower than Tieliang, will they? Li Xuanqing glanced at it and asked.

"I sulked in the back, saying that I didn't get the pursuit mission this time, but instead served as a guard for the heavy cavalry battalion and fought with Tie Liang in the back." Hu Xiaosi laughed heartily.

"Liu Yi went to tell him that there was a battle ahead." Chen Fan turned his head and told Liu Yi to find Hou Yong.

However, it turned out that at this time, the Black Chezi Murowei tribe had indeed gathered a large number of troops in the north and waited for Li Xuanqing. They were originally prepared to be drawn as the second echelon of the Gang Army, but as soon as the troops were assembled on the front line, the news came that the army was defeated, so they stopped the army and stayed on the northeast border to take a look at the situation first, but what they didn't expect was to encounter the men and horses of the Tiance Army.

Hou Yong originally thought that Liu Yi was deliberately fooling him, but as soon as he rode his horse for dozens of miles, he saw a tent on the horizon from a distance, and soldiers galloping back and forth, obviously the other party also discovered Hou Yong and them.

"Immediately report to the lord that the front has found the brigade of the Murwei people, and our army has attacked, and ask the rear army to hurry up and keep up." Hou Yong glanced at the wolf head flag and the Toyota next to him and said with a smile: "I have caught a big fish now, you lead people to attack from the left side, and I will lead the team to charge." ”

"Sons and daughters of the Tiance Army, rush with me." Hou Yong laughed wildly, took the lead and rushed forward, but he didn't pay any attention to what the other party's purpose was, and rushed up directly to start attacking.

For a while, the opponent's formation was in chaos, and the people of Murowei didn't expect that these guys would not care about anything and rush up directly to fight, and the battalion was rushed away almost in a charge.

Hou Yong and Toyota's cavalry held their breath and the shock brought by the impact was naturally not something that these unprepared Murwei people could resist, and by the time Li Xuanqing and others arrived at the scene, these two guys had already begun to counterattack the opponent's Chinese army front, leaving the opponent's rescue troops out of the Chinese army's large array.

"Tie Liang leads the army to charge, this Hou Yong." Chen Fan shook his head and asked Tieliang's heavy cavalry battalion to send troops to participate in the battle, he didn't want to delay time here, originally the people of Murowei planned to solve it after the battle, but at this time, if they were delayed, they would inevitably delay the time to go north.

At that time, Hu Xiaosi was in a good mood, and after watching Tie Liang wave his hand to let the 20,000 forwards of the heavy cavalry battalion start to charge and join the battlefield, he said with a smile: "Chen Fan, you are just too cautious, just with Hou Yong's ruthlessness, these Murowei people may not be his opponents with Toyota, and you let the heavy cavalry battalion participate in the war, it is indispensable that this guy will come to annoy you again after the war." ”

"Regardless of him, there are fifty or sixty thousand people in this group of Muwei people, even if they are stunned, just rely on Hou Yong and them to fight a one-to-one annihilation battle, when will we have to fight until the battle, we must rush to the eastern part of Beihai within three days." Li Xuanqing waved his hand and said, "Liu Yi stayed here to assist Hou Yong and them in handling the follow-up matters, and the others continued to rush north, and the army did not stop." ”

Li Xuanqing's method worked wonders three days later, when Lu Yi and Li Feixue and others intercepted Wujie on the east coast of the Beihai Sea and fell into a bitter battle, the 30,000 heavy cavalry battalion appeared out of thin air and brought heavy damage to Wujie, forcing the other party to break his tail again to survive, and plunged into Gao Siji's arms from the North Sea to the north, and was left forever on the shore of this beautiful lake.

Li Xuanqing's way when he encountered the black car and the Wei people had to divide their troops to fight, but the 100,000 cavalry such as Gao Siji and Wu Huan on the northernmost line almost got lost in the vast Siberian wasteland, and once went directly to the north and almost went along the river to the extreme north, but fortunately, Tuoba Siji felt that it was wrong halfway through, and met a few herdsmen on the road to know that he was going in the wrong direction, and the army quickly turned to the southwest again. This time, Gao Siji learned the previous lesson, and after the daily trip, he would look for herdsmen or small tribes nearby to inquire about the path and news, and delayed the date of the trip under the twists and turns, but the mistake was that Li Xuanqing ignored the taboo of dividing the troops, and led 30,000 heavy cavalry battalion soldiers to rush to the battlefield at the scheduled time day and night to lock the victory in advance, forcing Wujie to throw himself into the net.

The army on the north road went the wrong way, but the central garrison battalion in the middle road went smoothly under the leadership of Tahi, a native of the steppe, and bit Usuke so hard that he could not shake off this kraft candy. However, when Wujie crossed the mountains and entered the eastern part of the Mobei grassland, his mind changed, and he changed from fleeing to finding a way to eliminate the men who were pursuing behind him. After confirming that there were no other soldiers and horses in the Tiance Army, Wusuke decisively returned to the front and waited, taking advantage of the situation to defeat the opponent behind him, ushering in an opportunity for the reversal of this battle.

Speaking of which, this is the most speechless part of the grassland pursuit battle, many times the speed of the aliens on both sides of the attack and defense is too fast for people to react at all. At this time, there was basically no loss of more than 100,000 elite iron cavalry in Wujie's headquarters, plus the tribal soldiers and horses who automatically followed him along the way, not to mention 200,000 people. And after the sentry report, Usuke also understood that there were only 100,000 people behind him, and the long journey could not be compared with his own steppe cavalry. After weighing the two sides, Usuke felt that he had a great chance of winning, as long as he defeated the other party, these 100,000 people could not only restore morale, but even turn back and fight back to win the war.

Just when Wujie stopped at the front to deploy, Lu Yi and Li Feixue also got similar news. There was no information coming from the people on his left and right wings, and he could be regarded as a lone army in depth, and the number of enemies and friends suddenly became very different, so the two of them were not careful.

However, unlike Lu Yi's conservative advocacy of taking a defensive position and preparing to wait for the convergence of the two armies, Li Feixue has an almost blind admiration and belief in Li Xuanqing, and feels that no matter whether Gao Siji can arrive on time or not, at least the hundreds of thousands of troops in the command can arrive at the convergence on time, so he advocates fighting against the other side, delaying the pace of the other side, and even using his own forces to break up the opponent's formation if possible, so as to strive for a better opportunity for the main force to reach and destroy the enemy. To this end, Li Feixue carefully designed a virtual and real corresponding formation, using the grassland cavalry battalion and the directly subordinate battalion as a frontal resistance to Wujie's attack, and the pro-guard battalion sneaked up the opponent's central army behind the covert rear, forcing the opponent to withdraw the main force of the forward to return to the Chinese army, so as to mobilize the opponent to stagger the attack formation in the movement.

However, this method has one of the biggest drawbacks, that is, if the reinforcements cannot arrive in time, the personal guard battalion that breaks into the Chinese army will inevitably besiege the other side, and the friendly troops will be isolated by the other side and unable to rescue, and it will be lifeless at that time.

Lu Yi's face changed with Li Feixue after he finished talking about his plan, from the perspective of tactical effect, his plan is the best, but the communication of thousands of miles of grassland is inconvenient, it is really difficult to achieve the cooperation of the two armies, if Li Xuanqing can't arrive, then he will not only fail to complete the task but also suffer a major blow to the pursuit of this way, and the pro-guard battalion may even be wiped out under his nose.

"Lu Yi, you have to believe in the lord, guerrilla tactics and wolf tactics are new tactics proposed and created by the lord, and no one in this world can better understand how accurate this tactic needs to be in the calculation of time and space, so even if there is a delay on the southern front, it will definitely not delay the time for us to meet." Li Feixue knew what her former boss was thinking, and continued: "If you let go of Wujie this time, then the results of the grassland battle will definitely be greatly reduced, and my Tiance army has consumed countless but left hidden dangers for future generations, which is not allowed to appear in any case." The Lord often said that there is no new life without sacrifice. If the battle situation is really unfavorable, I will kill Usuke desperately and get rid of this northern henchman. Li Feixue's face showed a look of madness, but it was this color of madness that moved Lu Yi and Taxi beside him. The direct battalion and the pro-guard battalion are from the same source, and the two of them are nicknamed the two Dharma Protectors of Tiance Mansion by the outside world.

"Lu Yi, why don't I send someone along the southern line to inquire about the lord's movements? I'm familiar with this place, and I can send my guards to investigate. Tahi said as he instructed the guards around him to quickly ride away.

"Wait until you get back." Tahi's words made Lu Yi put his mind at ease, smiled with a twisted face, and turned around and walked away.

"The guard battalion will assemble immediately." Li Feixue nodded at Tahi and began to gather the guards camp immediately, and then headed north.

"Tahi, once the battle starts, your cavalry battalion headquarters must continue to cruise around my direct battalion, trying to delay the pace of the other party and buy time for our army. And when necessary, we must find a way to deal with Feixue, the personal guard battalion is the personal guard of the lord, and it is absolutely not allowed to be completely annihilated here. A hint of perseverance flashed on Lu Yi's face, and he revised the deployment of the frontal battlefield, and took all the heavy responsibilities on the battalion directly under him, so that Tahi had the opportunity to draw his strength to rescue the guard battalion.

"Lu Yi, don't worry, even if I die, I will bring Feixue and them out." Tahi was also very touched by the friendship between them, and hugged his fists and assured.

"Order, the whole army, prepare immediately, and the pro-guard team will supervise the preparation of explosives packages." Lu Yi waved his hand and began to issue military orders.